CATAPILLA Catapilla LP VERTIGO 1971 UK orig+swirl+gatefold ROBERT CALVERT
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CATAPILLAANNA MEEK - THIERRY REINHARDT - HUGH EAGLESTONE
ROBERT CALVERT - DAVE TAYLOR - MALCOM FRITH - GRAHAM WILSON
Built around the nucleus of Wilson, Calvert and Meek, this unusual progressive band
opts for long tracks, not too clearly structured, but with a unique and quite eerie atmosphere.
At times the substance is necessarily overstretched, but mostly it works well
and steers clear from any tedious soloing. This British progressive rock band
created some of England's most innovative music of the early '70s.
Although they disbanded shortly after the release of their second album,
Changes, the group's influence continues to be felt
"CATAPILLA"
Produced by Patrick Meehan Jnr.
1971 LP VERTIGO RECORDS 6360 029
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESS ON VERTIGO "Swirl" LABEL
Released in an unlaminated gatefold sleeve
Without 'VERTIGO' Company Inner Sleeve
Barcode and Other Identifiers
LABEL: VERTIGO - SWIRL LABEL - B&W TEXT
Catalog on cover: 6360 029 VO PRICE CODE
Catalog on Spine: 6360 029
Catalog on labels: (on Side A): none; (on Side B): 6360 029 (6360 029 2)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 6360029 1Y//1?420 11 2 04
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 6360029 2Y//1?420 11 2 04
On label: ?1971 on label (on the label the release year appears at 3 o'clock circa)
An Excellency Production
On the label A2 is titled 'Tumbleweed'
On Back Sleeve: 6360 029 VO PRICE CODE
On Inside Sleeve: An Excellency Production
Published in U.K. by Excellency Music
Engineer: Lou Austin
Sleeve Design: Rick Breach
Typography: Iain Stratton
Sleeve printed and made by Howards Printers (Slough) Ltd.
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: NAKED DEATH - TUMBLE WEED - PROMISES
Side B: EMBRYONIC FUSION
grading
RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG (please, see pictures and read above description)
The debut album by one of the most dramatic and certainly the most visionary of all the British prog bands
saddled with the epithet jazz-rock opens with little care for any of that. Taking a deep draught from
the King Crimson/Van Der Graaf Generator book of sonic brutality, the opening "Naked Death" is a hard-riffing,
thunderous clatter of apocalyptic imagery which -- if Crimson hadn't already dropped the same bomb
with "21st Century Schizoid Man" -- might have proved as lethal as the weaponry it discusses.
The same taste for Armageddon permeates the remainder of the album.
Some spectacular moments drift through the carnage; Robert Calvert's sax and Graham Wilson's guitar
might be most comfortable in full bludgeoning mode, but they can show restraint as well.
Unfortunately, vocalist Anna Meek is allowed no such luxury, coming across in places
like an extremely bad-tempered Sonja Kristina and in others
like a dehumanized version of Lydia Lunch...(AllMusic)
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